COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Years of complaints, dozens of crashes, and neighbors constantly on edge are now reaching a boiling point.
The growth in Central Ohio has led to an increase in traffic and NBC4 Investigates has heard fear and frustration from those living around one intersection.
Over the past nine years, there have been dozens of crashes at an intersection on the border of Delaware and Morrow counties.
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NBC4 Investigates dug through crash reports, 911 calls, heard from neighbors and took what we found to county leaders.
“The traffic is terrible,” Donna Mitchell, who lives by the intersection said. “They just fly by here.”
“Oftentimes we'll hear the screech and then the crash,” Sue Orme, who lives by the intersection said.
“You start to get used to that screech and that I mean, the bang of two cars colliding, is a sound that you don't really forget,” said Lindsey Frim, who lives by the intersection.
Two weeks ago Frim and Orme heard a crash and ran out to help.
“I just immediately took off and I always have my phone with me. So I literally was running and calling 911 at the same time,” Frim said.
The intersection, County Road 24 and County Road 228, has been the site of more than 30 crashes in the last five years.
“You can hear the crash, even with the windows and doors shut,” Mitchell said.
Crash reports show that more than half the time, someone got hurt.
“I'm always sitting here on the weekend and it seems to happen on the weekends that I'm waiting for a phone call to come in or someone to knock my door or even the screech of the car tires and the crashing. It's anxiety-provoking,” Orme said.
The road wasn’t always this busy. Donna Mitchell has lived along it her entire life, but now she says she can’t walk down the street.
“My kids used to play out in the road, and I have trouble walking to my mailbox and back,” Mitchell said.
These are county roads, so any change needs to come from Morrow County. The most recent change was a flashing stop sign along CR-228 a couple of years ago.
“If you hesitate at all for even a split second, there could be a car coming. And if someone's going faster than they're supposed to, which happens a lot, right? Then it seems like they're up on you all of a sudden,” Frim said.
NBC4 Investigates spoke with Morrow County Engineer Bart Dennison. He agrees the flashing stop sign isn’t enough. He blames people running the stop signs and said that more should be done.
“There's a lot of problems going on here. Can we work together? What can we do? What can you do? What can you do to help to make some change and to make this a safer place?” Frim said.
The Peru Township trustees are holding a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday about this intersection. The Morrow County engineer tells NBC4 he will be there to hear concerns and present what he calls a last-resort option.
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